Cambridge SoundWorks Introduces HD Radio

[I.B. Iquity]

Cambridge SoundWorks Expands Award-Winning Line of High-Performance Table Radios; Introduces HD Radio, Stylish Music Systems with iPod/MP3 Player Connectivity and Feature-Rich AM/FM Radios
CEDIA Expo 2006
Booth #579
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 13, 2006--Cambridge SoundWorks(R), an innovator and leader of the high-performance table radio category, today announced the most comprehensive expansion of its award-winning product line ever with the introduction of five new radio models, on display at the CEDIA EXPO in Denver, Colorado (Booth #579). The Company unveiled its first stereo radio using HD Radio(TM) technology, the SoundWorks(R) Radio 820HD. Also being introduced are two complete personal music systems that can connect to an iPod, ZEN, or other digital audio players, the SoundWorks Radio 735 and SoundWorks Radio CD 745; and a compact and stylish monaural AM/FM radio, the SoundWorks Radio 705. The Company also introduced a ground-breaking component HD Radio tuner for under $300. All of the new products will be available for purchase in October and November. Cambridge SoundWorks is a wholly owned subsidiary of Creative Technology Ltd (Nasdaq: CREAF).


"Today's introduction of our new family of high performance table radios marks one of the most comprehensive launches in our history and continues our tradition of innovation in the category," said Rob Mainiero, general manager of Cambridge SoundWorks. "Our new line covers the full spectrum of price and technology, for casual listening or an audiophile-grade experience. Cambridge SoundWorks has a product that delivers just what you're looking for, from a fun and friendly, compact monaural table radio to personal music systems with iPod and ZEN connectivity to tabletop or component HD Radio."

Crystal-clear Reception of HD Radio Broadcasting

The SoundWorks Radio 820HD is a stereo table radio that provides an ideal platform to enjoy crystal-clear reception with HD Radio(TM) technology and programming. The SoundWorks Radio 820HD was specifically designed to ensure the best reception possible of HD Radio broadcast. A unique-in-class telescoping antenna supports the FM band, while a generously large internal ferrite antenna supports the AM band. As a result, the SoundWorks Radio 820HD will consistently deliver all HD Radio technology's great new features: FM channels with near-CD quality sound, AM radio with FM-quality sound, and extra HD2 multicast channels featuring expanded formats. Plus there's up-to-the-minute text information, such as artist and song IDs, traffic alerts, sports scores and more. All with no monthly subscription fees. True to Cambridge SoundWorks' heritage, the SoundWorks Radio 820HD is an acoustic marvel, sounding remarkably smooth and clear. It will even fill up a larger room with rich sound, yet it is compact enough to fit easily on a small table. A convenient auxiliary input allows owners the benefit of hearing their MP3, CD, DVD player, or PC playback reproduced with the same degree of clarity and accuracy. Retail price: $299.99. Available: November.

Component HD Radio Tuner for Less than $300

The SoundWorks Tuner 850HD is a ground-breaking, component HD Radio tuner that will retail for under $300. Using Cambridge SoundWorks' new SoundWorks Tuner 850HD, a custom installer can create affordable, up-to-date systems that include the superior fidelity and enhanced programming of HD Radio(TM) technology. The SoundWorks Tuner 850HD comes configured for rack mounting and features 3 signal outputs (2 digital and 1 analog) for maximum installation versatility. An easy-to-use infrared remote control is included for "line of sight" control. In addition, the tuner features a vocabulary of commands to support remote user interface panels common in custom installation. In addition to its "F" connector input for FM, the SoundWorks Tuner 850HD includes a sensitive external AM antenna on a generously long signal lead, allowing placement away from local sources of AM interference. Retail price: $299.99. Available: November.

 

[IBOCRocks]

But SayNoToIBOC PLL said that manufacturers aren't interested in HD Radio.

Could that have been another lie?



PLL: New name, same lies.

 

[radioskeptic]

I doubt this would have happened if Henry Kloss were still alive!

 

[I.B. Iquity]

and if Thomas Edison were still around, he'd continue to insist that the cylinder was a more faithful sound reproducer then the CD!! You're drawing conclusions based on assumptions.

 

[radioskeptic]

Fair enough, I guess, because I made that statement based on the rather doubtful assumption that Kloss would still own the company.

Before starting Cambridge SoundWorks, he sold both KLH (or rather, he and his two partners did) and Advent (where he was the sole owner), and both operations went downhill afterwards. Who knows whether he'd still be running either Cambridge or Tivoli?

I remember the ads for earlier Cambridge Soundworks products, particularly the Model 88 radio a few years ago. They made a point of the fact that Kloss personally designed it, and refused to use the same off-the shelf IC's others were using for IF amps and audio drivers that others were using in similar products. He explained that he just couldn't get the performance he wanted from them.

Kloss was very finicky about his designs -- a perfectionist, in fact -- and I just can't picture him embracing iNiquity's trash technology!

So I stand by what I suppose I should have said: This wouldn't have happened if Henry Kloss were still in charge.

 

[IBOCRocks]

Fair enough, I guess, because I made that statement based on the rather doubtful assumption that Kloss would still own the company.

Before starting Cambridge SoundWorks, he sold both KLH (or rather, he and his two partners did) and Advent (where he was the sole owner), and both operations went downhill afterwards. Who knows whether he'd still be running either Cambridge or Tivoli?

I remember the ads for earlier Cambridge Soundworks products, particularly the Model 88 radio a few years ago. They made a point of the fact that Kloss personally designed it, and refused to use the same off-the shelf IC's others were using for IF amps and audio drivers that others were using in similar products. He explained that he just couldn't get the performance he wanted from them.

Kloss was very finicky about his designs -- a perfectionist, in fact -- and I just can't picture him embracing iNiquity's trash technology!

So I stand by what I suppose I should have said: This wouldn't have happened if Henry Kloss were still in charge.

Sure, if he were as obviously biased as you, he'd feel that way.

I think he'd love HD radio. It's a nice design from the consumer perspective.

See? I can make wild a** claims, too!

By the way, it's iBiquity. At least that's what the grown-ups call it.

 

[radioskeptic]

By the way, Edison was not wedded to the cylinder. In 1912, he introduced the Diamond Disc Phonograph, the first player with a diamond stylus. It played "hill-and-dale," or vertically-cut, discs.

The vertical system was technically superior to the lateral cut system developed by Emil Berliner in the 1890's for his Gramophone and retained by Eldridge Johnson when he took over the company (the name was changed to the Victor Talking Machine Co. when Johnson temporarily lost the right to the Gramophone name in America during a legal battle with a former distributor, though it never went out of use in England). The lateral method was also adopted by the Columbia Graphophone Company in 1902 when they started their transition from cylinders to discs.

Edison continued to produce both cylinders and discs for several years.

The introduction of radio -- yes, analog AM radio -- dealt the entire recording industry a serious blow because the sound was better than that of acoustical recording, especially at the bass end of the spectrum. Competition from radio provided the impetus for the development of electrical recording at AT&T's Bell Labs in 1925.

Edison, too, adopted the new technology. The results were technically excellent but commercially disappointing because Victor and Columbia so completely dominated the business. In 1928 Edison began producing electrically-cut lateral discs – which were also technically superb -- but sales were so poor that he left the recording business

The problem was that Victor had most of the biggest recording stars, and Columbia had a few of the top ones and much of the second tier. Edison had to compete with those two giants, and with the dozens of minor labels that had sprung up in the decade after World War I to find whatever talent he could, and he didn’t do very well in that race.

Those who think that all radio needs to compete with Ipods, satellite and the coming of WiFi is a new wrinkle in technology (rather than better content) should learn from Edison’s experience.
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Note to IBOC Rocks: I use “iNiquity” as a calculated parody of the childishly spelled “iBiquity,” which any literate person would spell “Ibiquity.” I have no use for idiosyncratic capitalization, whether it’s Ipod, Ibiquity, Bell Hooks or E. E. Cummings. So can the snide comments about “what grown-ups call it.” (And can’t you express yourself without using asterisks to suggest a vulgarism? Boy, are you guys inarticulate!)

As for the word “iniquity,” look it up. I think it’s an entirely appropriate description of a venture which is co-operatively owned in part by the major broadcasting companies who look forward to having the digital side channels of their 50-kw clears kill the signals of smaller AM broadcasters, and who don’t care that they may be depriving some of us of the only stations we even care to listen to on either band .

 

[IBOCRocks]

Or it's just like a third-grader who changes the other kid's last name in a feeble attempt to make fun of him.

Grown-ups generally don't need to do that, well, at least the ones who aren't insecure don't.

 

[radioskeptic]

So the distinction between a parady and a school-yard taunt is lost on you. I should have expected that!

 

[IBOCRocks]

So the distinction between a parady and a school-yard taunt is lost on you. I should have expected that!

Yeah, because you know so much about me.

I have not problem with parody.

Parody:
"An imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect"

Yours is a school-yard taunt.

 

[radioskeptic]

(Where do I begin to set him straight?)

How can it be a school-yard taunt when it was made, not in a school-yard, but in cyberspace?

And how can it be considered a taunt when it was aimed not at a vulnerable child, but at a company with the arguably illegal goal of using whatever political and other muscle it can muster to force its inferior technology on everybody else, and make them pay for it? (If you don't like their technology, too bad; they want you to HAVE TO use it -- and pay for the dubious privilege -- if you want to broadcast, or even if you only want to listen to radio, because the extreme wing of the IBOC faction wants to hasten the end of analog radio.)

So yes, it's possible to parody a name in this situation. After all, would you consider the name of every character in a Mad Magazine movie parody a school-yard taunt? Of course not!

So let's get back to the merits of IBOC -- or rather its lack of merit!

 

[IBOCRocks]

(Where do I begin to set him straight?)

How can it be a school-yard taunt when it was made, not in a school-yard, but in cyberspace?

And how can it be considered a taunt when it was aimed not at a vulnerable child, but at a company with the arguably illegal goal of using whatever political and other muscle it can muster to force its inferior technology on everybody else, and make them pay for it? (If you don't like their technology, too bad; they want you to HAVE TO use it -- and pay for the dubious privilege -- if you want to broadcast, or even if you only want to listen to radio, because the extreme wing of the IBOC faction wants to hasten the end of analog radio.)

So yes, it's possible to parody a name in this situation. After all, would you consider the name of every character in a Mad Magazine movie parody a school-yard taunt? Of course not!

So let's get back to the merits of IBOC -- or rather its lack of merit!

Set me straight...how quaint. Someone shouting baseless accusations is going to set me straight.

You make lots of accusations, but have nothing to back it up. Just like most of the others.

Show us quotes that prove:

*They want to force all broadcasters to adopt IBOC
*They want to end analog broadcasting (there has been talk of wanting to, but nothing definate
*It's an inferior technology (something other than the opinion pieces)
*Any proof that a crime has been committed, and that they've been accused of it.

Lots of hot air, little fact.

 

[PLL]

"Cambridge SoundWorks Introduces HD Radio" - BFD, it will sell, just as well as, the other HD radios !

 

[IBOCRocks]

"Cambridge SoundWorks Introduces HD Radio" - BFD, it will sell, just as well as, the other HD radios !

There we go...there's the intelligence that we've grown accustomed to from you!

By changing your name, you've admitted defeat.

PLL: New name, same lies.

 

[calstymes]

radioskeptic divulged:

I use “iNiquity” as a calculated parody of the childishly spelled “iBiquity,” which any literate person would spell “Ibiquity.”

I like "Ubiquitous" mice elf.

IBOCRocks exlaimed:

Show us quotes that prove:

*They want to force all broadcasters to adopt IBOC
*They want to end analog broadcasting (there has been talk of wanting to, but nothing definate
*It's an inferior technology (something other than the opinion pieces)
*Any proof that a crime has been committed, and that they've been accused of it.

Lots of hot air, little fact.

radioskeptic doesn't need to show you or any of us quotes or links (unlike the trash that the moron posts) or proof of any other nature.
1. They DO want to force all broadcasters to adopt IBOC
2. They DO want to end analog broadcasting (regardless of how far that "talk" has progressed)
3. It IS an inferior technology
4. As for a crime, well... we will know someday whether or not THAT is true or not.

As they say, it will all come out in the wash. Let me put it to you this way: If you don't think that there is at least the POSSIBILITY that the iBiquity goons (and their predecessors) have not been completely forthcoming in their business dealings over the past dozen years then I will submit that you MAY be naive.

All is not necessarily as it SEEMS and the ends don't ALWAYS justify the means.

 

[IBOCRocks]

radioskeptic divulged:

I use “iNiquity” as a calculated parody of the childishly spelled “iBiquity,” which any literate person would spell “Ibiquity.”

I like "Ubiquitous" mice elf.

IBOCRocks exlaimed:

Show us quotes that prove:

*They want to force all broadcasters to adopt IBOC
*They want to end analog broadcasting (there has been talk of wanting to, but nothing definate
*It's an inferior technology (something other than the opinion pieces)
*Any proof that a crime has been committed, and that they've been accused of it.

Lots of hot air, little fact.

radioskeptic doesn't need to show you or any of us quotes or links (unlike the trash that the moron posts) or proof of any other nature.
1. They DO want to force all broadcasters to adopt IBOC
2. They DO want to end analog broadcasting (regardless of how far that "talk" has progressed)
3. It IS an inferior technology
4. As for a crime, well... we will know someday whether or not THAT is true or not.

As they say, it will all come out in the wash. Let me put it to you this way: If you don't think that there is at least the POSSIBILITY that the iBiquity goons (and their predecessors) have not been completely forthcoming in their business dealings over the past dozen years then I will submit that you MAY be naive.

All is not necessarily as it SEEMS and the ends don't ALWAYS justify the means.

Convenient!

So he can sling potential lies and half-truths, but doesn't have to back them up with any facts or proof? How convenient!

You can submit that I am naieve. I sumbit that you are paranoid.

 

[PLL]

IBOCRocks: "Convenient! So he can sling potential lies and half-truths, but doesn't have to back them up with any facts or proof? How convenient! You can submit that I am naieve. I sumbit that you are paranoid."

You know, this gets really old sometimes...

 

[IBOCRocks]

IBOCRocks: "Convenient! So he can sling potential lies and half-truths, but doesn't have to back them up with any facts or proof? How convenient! You can submit that I am naieve. I sumbit that you are paranoid."

You know, this gets really old sometimes...

You're telling me. People posting links to blogs day in and day out...the wild comments about Amazon rankings...

PLL: New name, same lies

 

[PLL]

IBOCRocks: "You're telling me. People posting links to blogs day in and day out...the wild comments about Amazon rankings..."

Did YOU know that 50% of adults read/participate in blogs, and that blogs were partly responsible for a politician not getting re-elected (not sure, which one) ! Just heard on the news tonight, that employers are searching the Internet for derogatory information on potential candidates - blogs, myspace.com, etc...

 

[IBOCRocks]

IBOCRocks: "You're telling me. People posting links to blogs day in and day out...the wild comments about Amazon rankings..."

Did YOU know that 50% of adults read/participate in blogs, and that blogs were partly responsible for a politician not getting re-elected (not sure, which one) ! Just heard on the news tonight, that employers are searching the Internet for derogatory information on potential candidates - blogs, myspace.com, etc...

Right, the difference is that most of them are interested in intelligent discussion, and honest debate. You've admitted that your goal here is to use any means necessary to turn people away from IBOC. In fact, you can't even tell us why anymore. You've never heard it, don't believe anything positive that anyone says about it (you say we're all shills), then when you get called on it, you act like a two year old by spamming the same message over and over.

You don't want to participate, you want to control. That, in a nutshell, is my beef with you.

PLL: New name, same lies